WHLReview

145 Foster Street
Littleton MA 01460

The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.

To contact an editor simply click on a name below. To submit work to us please see "Submissions" below:

Editor & Publisher

Steve Glines 

Editor-at-Large

John Hanson Mitchell

Poetry Editor

Teisha Twomey

Poetry Reader
Carol Smallwood
Kate Hanson Foster

Fiction Editor

Tim Gager

Assistant Fiction Editors  Emily Pineau

Nonfiction Editor

Steve Glines

Book Reviews Editor

Doug Holder

Arts Editor/Curator

 Steve Glines

Poet in Residence

  Tomas O’Leary

 Submissions

Deadlines are as follows
March 1 – Spring
June 1 – Summer
September 1 – Autumn
December 1 – Winter

Please read this section before submitting work.

Please include some form of identification in the work itself.

All submissions must be in electronic form. Our preference is an MS Word file uploaded through the system below. Please do not send us pdf files. We can't use them.

By submitting work to us you grant us a non-exclusive license to publish your work in any form we see fit. You may withdraw a submission up until the issue deadline (see above).

We don't pay so you retain all copyrights. If we publish your work online we may include it in a printed edition.

Poetry may be submitted in any length. Please don't submit 100 poems and ask us to pick 3.

Fiction may be submitted in three formats:

We also accept longer forms of fiction occasionally.

Non-Fiction is just that so lets see some interesting footnotes. Non-fiction should be short, (a lot) less than 5000 words

Book Reviews should be positive unless the author is a well-known blowhard. Our mission is to encourage literature not discourage it..

Any form of art may be submitted with the constraint that it must be something that can be published in 2 dimensions. It’s hard to publish sculpture but illustrations together with some intelligent prose count.

Published works are welcome with proper attribution.

Please submit all works electronically. Click here to submit to Wilderness House Literary Review

Welcome to the 49th issue (Volume 13, no 1) of the Wilderness House Literary Review. WHLR is a result of the collaboration between a group of poets and writers who call themselves the Bagel Bards (who keep publishing their anthologies).

The stories, articles, poems and examples of art have been presented as PDF files. This is a format that allows for a much cleaner presentation than would otherwise be available on the web. If you don’t have an Adobe Reader (used to read a PDF file) on your computer you can download one from the Adobe website. These files are large and we hope you will be patient when downloading then, however we think the beauty of the words deserves a beautiful presentation.

Wilderness House Press has a Twitter feed and you can find us on Facebook or read about us on Wikipedia.

It costs quite a bit of money to keep publishing WHLR - Please help us out if you can as every little bit helps.

Our ISSN number is 2156-0153.

Let us know what you think in our Letters to the Editor.

Table of Contents

Opine

For some reason, the middle/end of March doesn’t feel like it’s the beginning of spring. April 1st, on the other hand always does, even if there is a raging blizzard outside. Fortunately this year Bumblebee Park is almost free of snow. Saturday, March 31, 2018, 8:00 a.m., I can see only a small scratch of white on the hillside across the street from us. It has been shrinking all week, and I suspect that when I return home this afternoon, it will be gone. If its still warm enough I’ll wander over to look. A decade ago I planted a dozen crocus bulbs there. Over the years they have multiplied and, as long as the squirrels haven’t found them, there should be a few dozen blue and yellow flowers on that spot, a spot that is almost invisible from all but the diehard explorers. I’ve seen deer nosing around but the flowers are so small and their lives so brief that the old stag that used to wander the field always left them alone. Still, It’s spring, and thus we are excited to present our Spring issue.

We are pleased to offer a special edition of Teen Voices Emerging:

• Tasnim Ahmed - One Day…
• Stella Harris - To Keep Her Full
• Shukri Osmane - Through a Teen’s Eyes:
  A Glimpse of the Roaring Destruction in Somalia
• Rossy Santana - From Veil to Voice
• Nadia Maigari - Understanding Ramadan in America
• Madalyn Spitz - Inspirational Women
• Hadja Bangoura - Mashallah, This Made My Day
• Diana Diaz - When I Found Out

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Art

We didn't have a good art story so we decided to feature portraits of the Bagel Bards.

• Steve Glines - Painted Poets
  

Fiction

Our fiction editor loves Anton Chekhov and despairs the notion that there are no latter day Chekhov's submitting works foTylerDempseyr her consideration. This is not to say that the work she receives isn’t excellent … it’s just not Chekhov. To that end WHLReview announces a new prize for fiction to be called “the Chekhov Prize.” A Google search reveals several other Chekhov prizes with cash. Alas we’re not offering cash. We will look for a bearded bobble-head doll. In the mean time we have T-shirts with the Chekhov Prize logo available. Just click on Chekhov's head.

For your reading pleasure we offer an outstanding collection of short stories by:

Poetry

Our poetry editor, not wanting to be outdone by our fiction editor is pleased to announce the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry. Anyone published in Volume 3 (and beyond) is eligible. We don't have any idea what the prize will consist of - a T-shirt for sure. Perhaps we can find a Plaster of Paris bust of Julius Caesar, put a rose in its mouth and decorate it to look like Gertrude Stein. In the mean time we have T-shirts with the our rose prize logo available. Just click on Gerturde's head.

Enjoy the collection of poetry we have assembled.

Reviews

WHLReview is brought to you by:

An exciting travelog:

Seven Days in Fiji
by Steve Glines

Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies
by Sonia Meyer

by Dennis Daly
From Ibbetson Street Press


The Last of the Bird People
a novel by John Hanson Mitchell


Sophocles' Ajax
translated by Dennis Daly

Ibbetson Street Press

As we said when we started this is a joint production of Wilderness House Literary Retreat and the “bagel bards”. The “Bagel Bards” have just published their nineth anthology. You may purchase them here: